EMPIRE PATTERNS.
M. Carnot, director of the Gobelins tapestry works, recently brought to light ten designs of the Napoleonic period. Six were for tapestries which decorated the Emperor's study at the Tuileries in 1811, and were painted by Dubois, under David's supervision. The other four, by the same artist, made hangings for a room used by the Ivmg of Rome, Napoleon's son. The execution of these ten designs will take a year to complete, and this represents a considerable speeding up in the craft of weaving. A skilled weaver m earlier times could turn out about one square yard in a year. To-day, thanks to modernised methods, he. can produce two square yards in that time. Tt sounds very littfe, but this is one of the few crafts that remain almost unaffected by the industrial revolution. An okl-vorld'atmosphere of unhurried diligence is what, strikes most visitors to the Maajifc cure des Gobelins.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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